Friday, July 28, 2006
Samsung Adds Beef: 8GB MMCplus Card
Posted by Darius Wey in "HARDWARE" @ 10:30 AM
"Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world leader in advanced memory technology, announced today that it has developed the industry's highest density MMC card (popular removable MultiMediaCard for portable electronics) based on its most advanced MLC (multi-level cell) NAND flash memory. It also has developed the highest performing MMC card, based on SLC (single-level cell) NAND flash, in rounding out its large portfolio of MMC memories. With added density and higher performance, the new Samsung MMCplusTM cards are designed to greatly enhance user convenience for a variety of mobile applications. Based on Samsung's 8-gigabit (Gb) NAND flash memory, the MMCplus card will be introduced with an 8-gigabyte (GB) density, allowing it to store 2,000 MP3 music files or eight hours of DVD-quality movies. The 8GB card will be part of a full line up of MLC-based MMCplus cards that also will include 1GB, 2GB, and 4GB offerings."
It wasn't too long ago that we were looking at 4GB SDHC cards. Well, feast your eyes on this 8GB MMCplus card from Samsung. Unlike SDHC, MMCplus is backward-compatible, so there's a good chance that this thumb-sized behemoth could work with existing MMC-capable Pocket PCs.
It wasn't too long ago that we were looking at 4GB SDHC cards. Well, feast your eyes on this 8GB MMCplus card from Samsung. Unlike SDHC, MMCplus is backward-compatible, so there's a good chance that this thumb-sized behemoth could work with existing MMC-capable Pocket PCs.
